education, obviously it costs us money, but ignorance costs us more money. she never took very many radical stands. she was never antigun. gabby owned guns. gabby was kind of, like, a bit of the it girl in tucson, everybody knew gabby. i mean, she grew up there, she was so successful. she was in the arizona legislature. then she was in congress. she was the first jewish congresswoman from arizona. and then she met an astronaut. well, we re here today with the kelly brothers, scott kelly, the commander of the international space station for expedition 26, mark kelly, endeavour s commander for the sts-134 mission. a lot of times people would ask, what s the like to be a twin? the response i would give is, what s the like to not be a twin? we were kind of pretty wild. pretty much every day, we would get into fistfights. some of these fights would last
of my space flights. we would talk about the odds. turns out she had the risky job. at a nasa briefing this afternoon, shuttle commander, mark kelly, is expected to announce that he will go ahead and command the shuttle, endeavor when it launched. gabby s improving muchic requester than the doctors expected. one of her doctors the other day said this is a one percentile kind of improvement. so, i started to think about the mission. and i ultimately made the decision that i would like to return and command sts-134. ground control to major tom ground control to major tom take your protein pills and
mark kelly, is expected to announce that he will go ahead and command the shuttle endeavor when it launched. gabby s improving much quicker than the doctors expected. one of her doctors the other day said this is a one percentile kind of improvement. so, i started to think about the mission. and i ultimately made the decision that i would like to return and command sts-134. ground control to major tom ground control to major tom take your protein pills and put your helmet on ground control to major tom i would go to work all day. i would come back and spend the
international space station for expedition 26. mark kelly, endeavor s commander for the sts 134 mission. you know, a lot of times people would ask what it s like to be a twin, and the response i would usually give is what s it like not to be a twin? we were kind of pretty wild. pretty much every day we could get into fist fights. some of these fights would last hour and hours. because we were so evenly matched. yeah. we grew up in new jersey. my parents were police officers. i initially was trained in the navy in corpus christi, texas. then i was deployed aboard the aircraft carrier uss midway. just two hours ago, allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq and kuwait. i flew 39 combat missions over iraq and kuwait. i had a couple of surface to air missiles shot at me. mark and scott kelly were selected by nasa to be test pilots. we both applied to the
america s president, barack obama, is going to florida to witness the last mission of the space shuttle endeavour, and it s bittersweet, but many believe in this tough time, we cannot afford the space shuttle program. nasa has to think of something new for commander mark kelly, it comes down to this. i know when i get back from sts-134 from this last flight of endeavour, i ll be thinking the same thing, that i can t really give this up. i ve got to figure out a way to get back into space again. but will he? will we? nasa dreams of landing on mars, but who knows if it will have enough money to do that. $1.3 billion of its $19 billion budget is earmarked for commercial development. maybe private companies will bring back some of those jobs lost when the shuttle program ends. and here s an ironic twist without the space shuttle, nasa astronauts will have to rely on russian rockets to get to the international space station. so, talk back today what will the last space shuttle